19 May
2013
19 May
'13
2:29 a.m.
On Sat, 18 May 2013, Toby Thain wrote:
-1
The advantages of using e.g. a PC are:
- Cheaper than one of those small SBCs (Beagle, Raspberry etc.), i.e.
a PC costs nothing (just grab one from your junk pile)
- Simple bridging to other media (Ethernet, WLAN, SCSI, CD-ROM drives
etc.)
- Possibility of easily manageing disk images, you can attach images quasi
on the fly; use of disk images over NFS is another very useful feature.
and so on.
So generally speaking, there are pros and contras for using a PC.
Christian
On 05/18/2013
04:50 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> ...
> Yebbut...having a grand old system like a PDP-11 on "life support" by
> connecting it to a PC is something that I (and others) find extremely
> distasteful.
+1